Peel Session (Boards of Canada EP)

Peel Session
Cover of 1999 release
EP by
Boards of Canada
Released11 January 1999 (1999-01-11)
Recorded16 June 1998
Maida Vale Studios
GenreIDM
Length
  • 24:56 (2019 re-release)
  • 17:01 (1999 release)
LabelWarp Records WAP114
ProducerMichael Sandison, Marcus Eoin
Boards of Canada chronology
Music Has the Right to Children
(1998) 		Peel Session
(1999) 		In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Peel Session is an EP by Boards of Canada, featuring the tracks played on their 1998 Peel Session broadcast on BBC Radio 1. It was originally released on 11 January 1999 as a 12" and CD by Warp Records, with catalogue numbers WAP114 and WAP114CD, respectively.

The music was written & produced at the band's Hexagon Sun studio in June 1998.[2] The BBC website and the privately released Peel Session June 1998 CD-R on the band's own Music70 label both indicate the recordings for broadcast were made on 16 June 1998 at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios.[3][4]

As with all Peel sessions, four tracks were recorded for it. One of the four, "XYZ",[4] was not included on the 1999 release due to sample licensing issues.

All versions released on Warp exclude the actual live recording of "Happy Cycling", as it was deemed unsatisfactory by the band. Instead, they contain a re-recorded studio version of the track.

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Peel Session (Boards of Canada EP) at Discogs
  3. ^ Peel Session (Boards of Canada EP) at Discogs
  4. ^ a b "BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - 16/06/1998 - Boards Of Canada". BBC. Archived from the original on 28 January 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2022.